TRANSITION WESTCLIFF FOOD SUBGROUP
Please note that this is a work in progress, if you have any ideas or contributions please leave a comment in the box below
-
CONTEXT FOR TRANSITION WESTCLIFF FOOD SUBGROUP
-
Peak oil
-
Energy descent
-
Transport implications
-
oil based fertility
-
-
Climate change
-
Increasing economic instability
-
Food security
-
Sustainability
-
Increase resilience
-
-
-
AIMS OF TRANSITION WESTCLIFF FOOD SUBGROUP
-
Networking and partnerships. Forge links and share resources between existing food related groups and projects such as allotments, Milton Community Partnership ‘Fruit and Veg Together Food Co-op’ and ‘Credit Crunch Cooking Club’, Growing Together, WEN allotment project, South East Essex Organic Gardeners, etc, etc
-
Add energy descent/post carbon context onto existing projects. Many existing projects
-
Post energy descent strategic planning – how will Westcliff and the rest of South East Essex feed itself when cheap oil is no longer available?
-
Initiate new projects
-
Education around food issues, including reskilling and awareness raising around food security
-
-
POLICY
-
‘Ends and Means’
-
What we are
-
Inclusive
-
Open
-
Broad based
-
Driven by awareness of CC/PO challenges
-
Multifunctional
-
Community driven
-
-
What we aren’t
-
parochial
-
Trying to take control of existing projects
-
Critical of existing projects
-
Don’t have all the answers
-
No ‘experts’ culture
-
-
-
STRUCTURE
-
Social enterprise?
-
Business plan?
-
Strategic plan?
-
Interlink with other subgroups
-
Use Viable Systems Model??
-
-
-
FUNDING
-
Sources of funding? What grants etc are available and how do we access them?
-
Why? What do we need funding for?
-
Development of project
-
Co-ordinator post
- Paid post means that local food sub group can be prioritised, rather than fitted in ‘when the time can be spared’
-
-
How much do we need?
-
-
RESEARCH
-
Food mapping – identifying potential local food growing locations, eg, allotments, school gardens, ‘waste land’, green spaces, roof tops, back gardens, public land, parks, etg, etc, etc
-
How did we feed ourselves in the past? Where did Southend source its food before the age of cheap oil?
-
Identify new opportunities for localisation of our food supply – food feet not food miles!
-
-
PROJECTS/INITIATIVES
-
Garden share – pilot project underway in Westcliff
-
Garden tours
-
Scrumping project
-
Local food directory
-
-
EDUCATION/OUTREACH – BRAINSTORM!
-
Basic veg growing workshops
-
Permaculture courses
-
Forest gardening workshops
-
Work with schools
-
Publicity
-
Website
-
Echo
-
Yellow Advertiser
-
Level 4 magazine
-
Healthy Living magazine/website
-
South East Essex Organic Gardeners newsletter/website
-
Milton Community Partnership newsletter
-
Community and shop noticeboards, eg, Scarletts, etc
-
Library network
-
-
-
PARTNERS – POTENTIAL AND ACTUAL (*) – BRAINSTORM!
-
Schools
-
Westborough
-
Barons Court
-
-
Community projects
-
Milton Community Partnership*
-
Fruit and Veg Together box scheme*
-
Credit Crunch cookery club*
-
-
Growing Together*
-
Emerge*
-
-
Allotments
-
Organistions/campaigning
-
FOE*
-
SEEOG*
-
Organic seminars*
-
-
WEN*
-
-
Business sector
-
Farmers markets
-
Cafes
-
Local shops
-
-
Local Authority
-
Local Groups and Projects:
Essex Beekeepers’ Association (EBKA)
South East Essex Organic Gardeners
Promoting organic gardening since 1994
Westcliff Land Cultivation Society
Springfield Drive Allotments
Landshare – share your land, use land, find a buddy gardener
The War Garden
Westborough School demonstrates how the people of Britain developed resilience and self-reliance during a past time of crisis…
St Laurence Orchard
A local community orchard project linking nature, people and culture
Women’s Environmental Network Allotment
A local community allotment – come and join in the work
Organic Growing Month by Month
South East Essex Camra
Campaign for Real Ale http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
CAMRA LocAle Lamb & Lion, Westcliff on Sea
Wider Circle:
RHS Campaign for School Gardening
Food For Life Partnership – transforming food culture, one school at a time
Holistic Land Managment – farms
Soil Association -healthy soil, healthy planet, healthy people
Garden Organic – the national charity for growing organic
Agroforestry Research Trust – UK, Devon
Permaculture Research Institute – Australia
Creating their forest garden – Maureen and Phil in Andalucia
Plant for the future -rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses
Other
Grow your own – fruit and veg magazine
Seed to Plate – design your own plot online, order seeds
Leave a Reply